Critical Care Educator - ICU (Days)

tannercareers; Carrollton (GA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanner Health System is seeking a Critical Care Educator with strong clinical ICU experience to lead education for critical care nurses. The role requires coordinating orientation, delivering didactic and hands-on training, and ensuring staff proficiency in advanced critical care procedures.

Ideal candidates will hold a Bachelor's degree with four years of related experience, and obtain ACLS Instructor certification within 90 days while becoming a Critical Care RN within six months.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in nursing or related field.
• Four years of related experience with broad systems knowledge.
• Experience in critical care settings and education delivery.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates nursing process knowledge in assessment, planning and documentation.
• Educates bedside clinicians on assessment, critical thinking and interventions.
• Plans and coordinates orientation for newly hired ICU staff.
• Assess educational needs and deliver in-services and CEUs.
• Maintain education records and collaborate with nurse leadership.

Skills

Clinical experience

Critical thinking

Emotional intelligence

Situational awareness

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

IABP

CRRT

12 lead EKG

Job description

The Critical Care Educator is a nurse with sound clinical experience, emotional intelligence, situational awareness and outstanding critical thinking skills lending one the ability to communicate well with his/her peer group in the Critical Care.

Required Knowledge & Skills

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Experience: Four years of related experience. Requires broad knowledge of complex systems and procedures.

Licenses and Certifications

• CRITICAL CARE REGISTERED NURSE
• ACLS INSTRUCTOR
• GEORGIA REGISTERED NURSE LICENSE OR MULTISTATE NURSING LICENSE

Qualifications

• Clinical experience to include care and management of the following patient populations: (A) Intra Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP), (B) Hemodynamic monitoring, (c) CRRT, (D) 12 lead EKG interpretation, (E) Rhythm interpretation, (F) Management of a ventilator patient, and (G) Management of patient recieving PCI.
• Documentation of experience in the provision of education for bedside clinicians. (Application requirement of 2 letters of reference related to the applicant's ability to coordinate and provide education for the critical care nurse).
• Ability to adjust the teaching plan to accommodate the visual learners, the auditory learners, the reading writing-preference learners, as well as the kinesthetic learner.
• Must receive ACLS Instructor Certification within 90 days of starting role.
• Must become Critical Care Registered Nurse within 6 months of starting role.

Statement Of Employment Philosophy

Being a part of Tanner Health System is more than a job, it is a promise we make to treat every patient with exceptional service every time they walk through our doors. Service excellence is the foundation of our organizational culture and the expectations we all set for each other, our patients, physicians and our community. All employees agree to abide by a set of service standards. These standards are the promise we make to provide the best care possible, and represent our beliefs, values and who we strive to become. We each commit to making Tanner Health System a great place for our employees to work, for patients to receive care and for physicians to practice medicine.

Functions

Area of Responsibilities

• Demonstrates knowledge of the nursing process in patient assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, and documentation. Demonstrates natural leadership ability and displays a high degree of tact and diplomacy.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills in medication and I.V. drug administration. Effectively operates and understands the use of specialized equipment and the clinical indications for use. Capable of trouble shooting equipment problems or obtaining assistance for when indicated.
• Demonstrates the ability to educate bedside clinicians regarding assessment, critical thinking, and intervention to assist them in the coordination of total patient care to management biophysical and psychosocial needs of the patient in a family oriented environment.
• Plans, develops, and coordinates the didactic orientation program for the newly hired Critical Care employees. Adapts the orientation process to accommodate nurses with varying degrees of experience and education.
• Assessment of unit specific educational needs, with implementation of varied in-services based on assessment findings. A. Goal of monthly educational offerings to include an advanced critical care course annually. B. Provision of CEU's or Certs with educational offerings. C. Inclusion of current research and evidenced based practice as a component of the curriculum. D. Maintenance of the staff's education records. E. Collaborates with nurse manager to develop a level of excellence in the critical care staff. F. Maintains and updates professional skills, maintains current clinical certification, and shares knowledge with staff by developing formal in-services as well as point of care skill development.
• Demonstrates behaviors necessary for age-specific care and knowledge of decision-making process for all ages of population(s) served. Demonstrates ability to communicate appropriately with various ages.
• NEONATE - developmental level, vital signs, immunization status, s s abuse neglect.
• INFANT - developmental level, vital signs, immunization status, s s abuse neglect.
• TODDLER - developmental level, vital signs, immunization status, s s abuse neglect.
• PRE-SCHOOLER - developmental level, vital signs, immunization status, s s abuse neglect.
• SCHOOL AGE - developmental level, vital signs, immunization status, s s abuse neglect.
• ADOLESCENT - developmental level, vital signs, immunization status, s s abuse neglect.
• ADULT - developmental level, vital signs, s s abuse neglect, anxiety related to illness.
• GERIATRIC - developmental level, vital signs, s s abuse neglect, anxiety related to illness.

Compliance Statement

Employee performs within the prescribed limits of Tanner Health System's Ethics and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe, and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, the Compliance Officer, or the Hotline.

Required Knowledge & Skills

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Experience: Four years of related experience. Requires broad knowledge of complex systems and procedures.

Licenses and Certifications

• CRITICAL CARE REGISTERED NURSE
• ACLS INSTRUCTOR
• GEORGIA REGISTERED NURSE LICENSE OR MULTISTATE NURSING LICENSE

Supervision

• Critical Care Educator will be responsible for the coordination of education for the nurses in the critical care service line to include evaluation and development of unit and individual staff education, orientation of new ICU staff, and implementation of new treatment modalities as they arise.
• Reports to the Critical Care Director.

Qualifications

• Clinical experience to include care and management of the following patient populations: (A) Intra Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP), (B) Hemodynamic monitoring, (c) CRRT, (D) 12 lead EKG interpretation, (E) Rhythm interpretation, (F) Management of a ventilator patient, and (G) Management of patient recieving PCI.
• Documentation of experience in the provision of education for bedside clinicians. (Application requirement of 2 letters of reference related to the applicant's ability to coordinate and provide education for the critical care nurse).
• Ability to adjust the teaching plan to accommodate the visual learners, the auditory learners, the reading writing-preference learners, as well as the kinesthetic learner.
• Must receive ACLS Instructor certification within 90 days of starting roles.
• Must become Critical Care Registered Nurse within 6 months of starting role.

Definitions

The Critical Care Educator is a nurse with sound clinical experience, emotional intelligence, situational awareness and outstanding critical thinking skills lending one the ability to communicate well with his her peer group in the Critical Care.

Position Responsibilities

Contact with Others: Performance of job requires contact with others where team work is essential, requiring tact in order to obtain cooperation. Contacts may be outside of the organization also.

Effect of Error: Probable errors may be serious and involve losses such as improper costs, overpayment, waste of material, damage to equipment, and delay in processing work. Effect usually confined within the organization. Most of work not subject to direct verification or check. Regularly works with some confidential data such as account, salaries, patient medical records, which if disclosed might have adverse internal or external effects.

People Management Responsibilities

Supervisory Responsibility: Has limited supervision over a large section of employees (15 up), i.e. assigns and directs their work; instructs new employees and corrects results, may discuss with supervisor, but has no authority over job content or personnel. Team governance where the Members evaluate, interview, and recommend personnel actions.

Work Environment/Physical Effort

Mental Demands: Work is involves a variety of problems in a general field, some of which are complex. Involves some independent judgment to decide what to do to assemble facts, determine variations from standard procedures, or plan other action to be taken to meet general objectives.

Working Conditions: Considerable - (About 75% of the day) Involved in exposure to dirt, odors, noise, or some work is performed with exposure to temperature/weather extremes/occupational risk and probability of coming into contact with blood borne pathogens, other potentially infectious diseases, or biomedical/bio-hazardous materials.

Working Conditions Aspects for Immunizations

Performs tasks involving contact with blood, blood-contaminated body fluids, other body fluids, or sharps (needles): Yes

Directly works with Patients less than 12 months of age: No

Physical Effort: Considerable physical effort - Lifts, carries, or handles medium weight equipment, materials, or supplies most of day. Occasional physical effort with heavy objects (over 60 lbs.). Works in reaching or strained positions frequently.

Physical Aspects

Bending: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Typing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Manual Dexterity -- picking, pinching with fingers etc.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Feeling (Touch) -- determining temperature, texture, by touching: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Hearing: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Reaching -- above shoulder: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Reaching -- below shoulder: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Visual: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Color Vision: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Speaking: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Standing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Balancing: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Walking: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Crawling: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Running - in response to an emergency: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Lifting up to 25 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Lifting 25 to 60 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Lifting over 60 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Handling -- seizing, holding, grasping: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Carrying: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Climbing: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Kneeling: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Squatting: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Tasting: Not required

Smelling: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Driving -- Utility vehicles such as golf carts, Gators, ATV, riding lawnmowers, skid steer, aerial lift: Not required

Driving -- Class C vehicles: Not required

Driving -- CDL class vehicles: Not required

N95 Respirator usage (PPE): Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Hazmat suit usage (PPE): Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Pushing/Pulling -- up to 25 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Pushing/Pulling -- 25 to 60 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Pushing/Pulling -- over 60 lbs. : Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time